Noon (also mid-day or noon time) is the hour of 12:00 in an observer's local time zone, or more loosely, a time near the middle of the day when workers in many countries take a meal break. The scientific term solar noon describes the moment when the sun crosses the meridian in apparent solar time, the time during a day with the highest sun elevation, which depends on longitude, latitude and date . The opposite of noon is midnight. In the northern hemisphere, "noon" had an ancient geographic as… (More on Noon)